But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It's funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people's expectations. People… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The customer is always what inspires me first! I love talking to everyone on Instagram and seeing feedback on SnapChat! I can… — Jeffree Star Copy Share Image
Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to… — Sia Copy Share Image
My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like.… — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Expectations and hopes are totally different. Expecting something to happen is like betting on it, either you win a great deal or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
Just as you need the man in your life to love you unconditionally, even when you’re not particularly lovable, your man needs… — Shaunti Feldhahn Copy Share Image
In America sometimes I'll play to a full black audience of young people, they will be really getting into this super-aggressive guitar… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us… — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance,… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge… — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
“Life isn't all perpetual bliss, nor is it one woeful weeping session. But you can concentrate so hard on noticing moments of… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Looking for perfection in a person brings too much expectations. When your expectations are not met, too many disappointments come. Learn to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I honestly do not think about celebrity or image or sexual expectations on me. It only comes up when people have a… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
“Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it’s better. Sometimes it’s worse. And sometimes it’s just different. It’s not… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image